MINNEAPOLIS  In addition to baseball, the Padres’ visit to Fenway Park the next three days will be about homecomings and reunions.

Topping the list, of course, is Adrian Gonzalez.

After five seasons with the Padres, the first baseman was traded to the Red Sox last winter for current Padres first baseman Anthony Rizzo, right-handed pitcher Casey Kelly, outfielder-second baseman Eric Patterson and minor league center fielder Reymond Fuentes.

The Padres’ Most Valuable Player in four of his five seasons in his hometown, Gonzalez hit .288 as a Padre with 161 homers and 501 RBI. The three-time National League All-Star is second on the Padres’ all-time home run list, fourth in career RBI and fifth in doubles and runs scored.

He is hitting .347 with the Red Sox with 15 homers and 64 RBI. He leads the American League in batting average and RBI and is tied for seventh in homers.

“No doubt he’s having a great season and that doesn’t surprise me,” Padres manager Bud Black said Sunday. “He’s an All-Star player and he’s playing like it. His stroke sets up well in Boston.”

Playing first for the Padres will be Rizzo, who is the only one among the four they got for Gonzalez on the major league roster.

The 21-year-old Rizzo, who is hitting .148 with one homer and one RBI in 27 major league at-bats since being promoted on June 9, is looking forward to returning to Boston and Fenway Park, where he had a private workout for the Red Sox in 2007 before being drafted in the sixth round.

“I was part of the Red Sox nation for four years,” said Rizzo. “I think any player who goes through that organization will always have some ties to the Red Sox. Their fans love the players.

“And the Red Sox helped me so much when I was sick (battling Limited Stage Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2008). I’m really excited about going back.”

Members of the Red Sox with ties to the Padres in addition to Gonzalez are former Padres majority owner Tom Werner, former Padres CEO Larry Lucchino, Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein (formerly a Padres aide to Kevin Towers) and Red Sox Manager of Media Relations Leah Tobin.

Moseley sharp

After missing his last start while recuperating from a partial, temporary dislocation of his left shoulder, right-hander Dustin Moseley pitched Sunday with a neoprene brace on his left shoulder.

Moseley allowed three runs, but only one earned run, on three hits and two walks over 6 1/3 innings.

“Moseley did a great job, he pitched really well,” said Black.

“The brace gave me a lot of support and peace of mind,” said Moseley. “I knew warming up in the bullpen that it wasn’t going to be a problem. I felt pretty good. I was throwing everything for strikes.”

Notes

•Padres bullpen catcher, cancer survivor and former University of Minnesota Golden Gopher All-American Mark Merila delivered the Padres lineup card to the umpires yesterday. The umpiring crew and Twins coach Jerry White posed at homeplate for pictures with Merila.

•Second baseman Orlando Hudson was activated from the disabled list Sunday morning and went 2-for-3 with a run scored in his return. Hudson has missed 35 of the Padres’ first 73 games with right hamstring and left groin strains.

•To make room for Hudson, the Padres optioned second baseman Logan Forsythe to Triple-A Tucson.